Evan Esar
Evan Esar
Evan Esarwas an American humorist who wrote "Esar's Comic Dictionary" in 1943, "Humorous English" in 1961, and "20,000 Quips and Quotes" in 1968. He is known for quotes like "Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions." He also wrote The Legend of Joe Miller, which was privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco by the Grabhorn Press in 1957...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.
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Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.
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Many a woman would get a divorce if she could do it without making her husband happy.
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Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.
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The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.
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An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.
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Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.
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Some couples divorce because of a misunderstandin g; others, because they understand each other too well.
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Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
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Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
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A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
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Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
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Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment.
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When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.